The Sun. — London, England, 1810-08-18 00:00:00

Last night Paris Papers to the 10th inst. reached town. the Moniteur of the Bth contains the De cree, which we have already laid before our readers, fur permitting the importation of certain article's into France; and in the same paper of the 9th there is a letter from the French Minister for Foreign Affaits to the American Minister General ARMSTRONG. In this letter the French Nlinister justifies the seizure of all the American vessels that were in the ports of France and her Allies, on the ground that the Ame ricans had prohibited French vessels from entering their ports. He then prOceeds to inform General ARMSTRONG, that he is authorized to declare that " the Berlin and Milan Decrees are revoked, that from the fil,t of November they will cease to be in force, it being understood that.in consequence of this declaration the English shall revoke their Orders in Council, and renounce the new principles of blockade which they have attempted to establish ; or that the United States, conformably to the At which you have just communicated (the A& of Congress of the Ist of gay), shall cause their rights to be respected by the English." This paragraph is worded, perhaps intentionally, ,in a'most ambiguous manner:—it begins by assert ing, positively, that the Decrees are repealed from the Ist November, and then proceeds to annex a csin &Lion which renders the former part of the sentence nugatory. The English have not adopted any prin ciples of blockade which are not perfectly justifiable by the Law of Nations, and consequently they have no principles to renounce. Besides, BUONAPARTE • has no right to propose bargains with the British Government upon the subject of the Orders in Council. He thought proper, in defiance of the , acknowledged Law of Nations, as well as of the most obvious principles of justice, to issue his two famous Deciees of November, 1806, and December, 1807, known by. the name of the Berlin and Milan Decrees, and if he is now convinced of their injus tice, or feels their impulicy, he is at liberty to repeal them ; but lie has no right to make terms with the British Government upon the subject, or to ask for a compensation for rescinding Decrees which he had no right to issue, and which ha% e been productive of mischief qn!y to himself. With rekard to the pro- 11c will re, position relative to 24-1..7,c77:,."7., scind the Decrees, provided America will declare war with Great Britain, it is one which he has repeatedly made before, and hich the Government of tue United States will not, we think, be very eager to adopt. What advantage would America derive from the repeal of these Decrees, if she were to go to war with Great Britain ? What benefit would accrue to the Americans from a permission to enter the Ports of France, Holland, and Italy, if Great Britain would not permit their slops to quit the Harbours of America ? What security would the Americans derive from BUONAPARTE'S permis sion to navigate the Ocean, if the British Admiralty were to issue orders fOr taktng, burning, sinking, and destroying their vessels ? The Americans are a trading and calculating People, and if ever they do go to war with Great Britain, it will not be for the sake of the commercial advantages which they are likely to derive from the repeal of the Berlin - and Milan Decrees. There are some passages in the concluding part of this Letter, which transcend, in point of insult, any thing which we have ever seen, even in one of BUONAPARTE'S State Papers. After all his aels of wanton oppression and violence towards the subjects of America, after seizing and confiscating their ships and cargoes in the midst of peace; in a .word, after having exhatisted his ingenuity in devising new modes of insult and aggression against the United Stau:s, he makes his Minister tell General ARMSTRONG that " his Master loves the Americans," that " their prosperity and commerce enter into the views of his policy," and that " whatever can contribute to the INDEPENDENCE, the prosperity, and the LIBERTY of the Americans will be regarded by the Emperor (meaning BUONAPARTE) as conformable to the Interests of his Empire ! !.!" If in all the re cords of diplomacy a document can be found con taining; a more studied and galling in•ult, we should be glad to peruse it as a liteiary cut iosity. This morning a Gottenturgh arrived. The King of DENMARK, it appears, is quite serious in n!, designs upon the Crown of Sweden, for he has pub lished a pamphlet to convince the Swedes of the benefits they would derive from having him for their King ; if, however, BCIONAPARTE does not furnish him with some stronger arguments than those contained in his bo-k, he is nut very likely to add the Crown of Sweden to those of Denmark and Norway. On Wednesday evening a heavy firing was heard on the heights at Dover in the direaion of the op. posit Coast, which from the blazes of light dis covered at intervals, had the appearance of being il luminations. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, and Princesses SOPHIA and AUGUSTA, took their usual morning rides in the Great Park, Windsor, till near twelve o'clock. The Royal Party was accompanied by Lords HARCOURT and WALSINGH A I\l, Lady CoL LYEH, Generals GWYNN E and FITZROY, and Colonel TAYLOR. Her MAJESTY and Princess ELIZABETH took an airing to Frogmore Lodge, and walked in the gardens. Accounts from Cadiz to the 22d uh. have been received. An opinion prevailed there that the enemy were about to raise the blockade of the Isle of Leon. The Spanish partizans are said to have been so ex tremely atlive as to have tendered the subsistence and communications of the besieging army extremely . precarious. The Regency had received very satis tadory accounts of allegiance and attachment from the Colonial Settlements. Large supplies of money and prdouce we're on their way trotn thence . to the Mother Country. The Regency had issued an order by which the merchants at the ditlerent ports in Spain are autho rised to ship in Spanish bottoms, to any of the pro vinces or settlements attached to the Mother Coun try, free of any duty whatsoever, " all articles un der the denomination of calicoes, of the manufacture of Great Britain." General O'DONNELL, according to some letters, has been honourably restored to the chief command of the Army of Catalonia. The Government of Mexico have written to the Regency that if they want nothing but money they shall be sopped, and accordingly have sent from 16 to 20• millions of dollars ; and should they be in need of more,' they will make it up to 70. A cartel sailed on Wednesday from Plymouth for Moilaix, with several sick, aged, and infirm F , en.ch prisoners. It has been usual tor some time to s, nd back prisontqs in this condition to the comforts of their native country, without any regard to exchange. This humanity is the more to the credit of the Bri tish Government, as we do nut understand that n is reciprocal. ,Mt. GOLDSMID gave a grand dinner yesterday, at his seat at Merton, in Surrey to their Royal High nesses the Prince of WALES, the Dukes of YORK, CLARENCE, and nearly the whole of the elegant company which were assembled at. - attlands on Thursday to celebrate his Royal Highness the Duke of Yo_ax's Birth-day. Last week a trial for trim. con. came on in En nis, i❑ the County of Clare, before the Hon: Mr. Justice Mayne, and a Special Jury, in which Mr. Patrick O'Henuessey, carpenter, was plaintiff ; and Mr. Foster Parsons, printer, was defendant. The damages were laid at 20001. when, after 2 hearing of eight hours, the Jury returned a verdict of 5001. and fid. costs for the pla lune , ! from the value of goods imported, on ac xount of articles in return tor which nothing is ex j)(oted. These deductions consist of the produce of fisheries, and of imports from the East and Wesi- Indies, which are of the nature of rents, profits, and capital remit ed to proprietors in this country. The balance of trade in favour of this country, upon the face of the account thus made up, was In 1805 about - 6,616,0001. 1806 - - 10,437,0001. 1807 - - - 5,866,0001. • . 1808 - - - 12,481,0001. 1809 - - - 14,834,0001. So far, therefore, as any inference is to he drawn frotti the balance thus exhibited, the exchanges during the present year, in which many payments to this country on account of the very advantageous balances of the two former years may be. expected to rake place, ought to be peculiarly favourable. Your Committee, however, place little confi dence in deductions made even from the improved document which the industry and intelligence of the InspeCtor General has enabled him to furnish. It is defeCtive, as Mr. living has himself stated, Inas much as it supplies no account of the sum drawn by foreigners (which is at the present period peculiarly "large) on account of freight due to them tor,the em ployment of their shipping, nor, on ti.e other hand, of the sum 'receivable Irian them (and forming an addition to the value of our exported articles) on ac count of freight arising from the. en'ployment of British shipping. It leaves out of consideration all in terest on capital in Eogland 7 possessed by foreigners, and on_ capital abroad belonging to inhabitants of Great Britain, as well as the pecuniary transactions between the Governments of England and Ireland. It takes no cognizance of contraband trade, and of exported and imported bullion, of which no ac count is rendered at the Custom-house. It likewise omits a most important article, the variations of which, if correctly stated, would probably be found to correspond in a great degree with the tioduations of the apparently . 6.vourable balance ; namely, the bills drawn on Government for our naval, military, and other expellees in foreign parts. Your Com mittee had hoped to receive an account of these from the table of the House ; but there has been some difficulty and consequent delay in executing a ma terial part of the order made for them. It appears from " an Account, as far it could be made out, of sums paid for Expences Abroad in 1793, 4,5, and 6," inserted in the Appendix of the Lords Report on the occasion of the Bank RestriCtion Bill, that the iumb so paid were, in 1793 - - - 2,785,2521. 4 - 8,335,5911. 5 - - - 11,040,2361. 6 - - 10,649,9161. [To be continued.] MAILS. Altlt I V ED—I Gortenburgh, r Dublin. Dos —x Cadiz, Lisbon, z Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS D4Y AT TWILVL O'CLOCK. Consols - - 68 gi Omnium - f E 6 t: N. . . • I} soLzm QUIS picaict ,ALBUM AUDLAT L 0 N I) 0 IV . SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1810. GOTPENBURGII JULY 30.—f informed yoa in my his Danish .Iv,a - je - ;:;" last that had offeredhimsvh as successor to the late Crown Prince, engaging, in •the event of his succeeding to the Crown, to make this capital his principal residence; since then, a paper has been circulated wi'h much industry, pointing out the advantages which would ensue from an union with the three Crown; of Denmark, Nor way, and Sweden. Although the sophistry of this paper should not be too palpable to make it reject ed by every good Swede, yet the recent example of the union of Holland to Francc, and the benefits which have followed in consequence, would be an inducement ample enough for us to resist, by gvery means in our power, a conneEtion so abhorrent to that loyal and patriotic policy which we have ever displayed. OREB no, JULY 3 t .—Yesterday his Majesty went in procession to • the, Cathedral, attended by • the usual number of Heralds, the Members of all the Courts of Justice and Public Boards, the Marshal of the Empire, Ministers of State, and all the Deputies of the States, to attend divine service. Du for MURRAY, Bishop and Knight, Commander of the Royal Orders, delivered an excellent sermon on the 15th verse of the 9111 Psalm; and divine , service being over, his Excellency Count ESsiEN opened the Diet with an appropriate Tecch, and ti: Aulic Chancellor read the propo sitions which were to be wade to the States 'on the part of his Majesty, for their deliberation. The High Marshal and the Speakers of the divers States then kissed his Majesty, and the procession returned •to the Castle. - COPENHAGEN', JULY 2 1 .—A pamphlet has lately been published in Sweden, under the title " to i;'t Scandinavians," the author of which enumerates se veral grounds, why the future union of Dentu,rk, Norway, and Sweden, under one Sovereign would be an event produaive cf signal advantages to the North of Ellrope. He also observes, that the mighty Monarch who guidcs the politics of the Contnent would not throw any obstacle in the wayof a similar change. PETERSBURGH, JULY 3,—Our Court Gazette has now given a detailed account of the operations of our army of Moldi% if., whereby it appears that at the storming of Bazardsliick 8000 Turks were killed; besides the Commander in Chief PEGLIVAN, 276 Pachas vb ere taken prisoners ; the number of the latter amounts in the whole to 1657. The loss of Russians does not exceed 700 men. NAPLES, SULY s.—We expe& here great events ; nobody doubts of success. The King has a fine and excellent army, more than 800 transports and 80 gun-boats, and his maritime, forces daily augment. The troops are full of ardour. CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 30.—The Operations against the Wechabites are about to be pursued with more a6.livity ; they have seized upon the Island of Bahreim, and the town of Zobuta, in the Persian Gulph, which renders them masters of t4e 'pearl fisheries, But Scherif HEMOND, one of the de scendants of the Schelifs of Mecca, has advanced from Jemen to Tajef, three leagues from Mecca. This event is the more important, because it is from Tajef that provisions are procured for Mecca. They write from Cairo, that a plan of attack has already been- agreed upon ; the ditTerethGenerals have been named ; the sort of the Pacha, FESUM PADHA, is to have the chief command ; to this end, a great number of ships, in frame, have been trans ported across the desert to Suez, where they will be put together, in order to receive troops on board. AJACCIO, JUNE 30.—A regiment of four batta lions is organizing in the Island of Corsica, under the name of the Mediterranean Regiment. The first battalion is already formel VIENNA, JULY 18.—The Pre:sturgh Gazette, and after it the Gazettes of Salzburg, Nuremburgh, c , anain ieports with the date of Pansova, July 28, that the Servian Chief, GEORGE PETROWiTZ (Czer in), had received from the Russian General the highly agreeable inteiligeuce teat the Grand Vizier had been defeated and reduced to such , a condition, as to be under the necessity of immediately pro posing a truce. • • CZERNY GEORGE upon this sent offa Courier to Belgrade to,cause this great victory to be celebrated there, on the 24th of June, by a discharge or anti lees ; but a second Courier arrived with advice that the fortune of war had changed, that a certain IBRAHIM Pasha had come up with 4000 Natohan cavalry, and delivered the Grand Vizir, and that therefore the rejoicings at Belgrade - should be de ferred. The same Presburgh Gazette, in the paper of the 13th Jidy, says,—lne last battle between the Turks and itusjans was not so unfavourable to the former as was at first reported, as the Turks received sue cours: the . •Russians also received a retutoreernent. Of this uncertain battle, however, of which we have nei.her place nor date, nothing like an official ac count has yet been received. NAPLES, JULY 6.—ln the harbour of Scilla, there are about 400 ships ready for the expedition against Sicily. , NAVAL NEWg PLYMOUTH, AUG. i6.—The Anstrian ship C O. rinde, from Amelia Island, with a cargo of tiu' ber '. went `'is r`l r rlitig in Catwater, but is p..6led to be got off again in the course. of the day it Arrived his Mijesty's ship Ph easan t from mouth ; Gleaner and Orestes from separate cruize s; and a ship from America with a cargo o f t imber. Went into harbour the Deptford Tender. Sailed the Spanish ship Algeziras, o f 74 gun s ' for Portsmouth ; and the diaive for Guernsey• rEAL, AUG. 17.—1 t i s not corne a t h a t t he p• h nix, TAY LOR, at rived in the Downs yesterday frocri Jamaica ; she was not to sail from that Island until the middle of last month. • Came down from the Rivera few ships, and sail with the whole of the outward-bound, under cool of his Majesty's ships Echo, Skyl ar k, P o d ar gus l 3 n Humber. Sailyd the Pompee man of war for Portsmouth, Arrived the Bellerophon man of war froth ° P s Flushing. FIVE o'CLoOK, P.M.—The greater part of the outward-bound are now round the South Foreland' • with a fine breeze at N.E. SHE ERN ESS„ AUG. 6.—Arrived his Majesty' ships Alert and uadaloupe, and the Tower Tetta th with volunteers and inprest men for the fleet. It blew so hard yesterday, that the ships at the Great Note - had no communication- wish-the sh° ll o AUG. i7.—Sailed op the River his Majesty's " Guadaloupe. Arrived his Majesty's gun -brig Fancy frorp Led ISLANDS OF SCILLY, AUG. 14. -- Entered °tIV the Il'heat Sheaf, of Landon, master, for Gibraltar; and the sloop Star, of Sci ll Y' MAY, for Lisb :n. Remains 'in harbour the galliot Gate Elwar"' itYDYK ( - Miter, under seizure for 5311 661 the 2d June last ; eargomnloading. Sailed the Orestes sloop of war, having unde r c°ll .; voy the new sailing lighter of Fahnoutb, adapte J ti t laying down ships moorings and couveyalic d stores. • , PORTSMOUTH, t\UG 17.—Sailed hisnajestY . ' lliis Diadem and Regulus for' HAW Coquette, N ai l ►s : and Resolute, on a crifize ; Spurtan for Ply 1 TO' ll '; Ant schooner for Guernsey ; ibrietia frigate, tho ;Olind a lit stare-ship to the Eastward. j os, The Kite ,lop of war takes convoy to the D r ' and the Rupitl schooner to the Weht , ,vard as ra` tlir as Plymouth. ' FALNIGUTII, AUGUST .s.—Sailed the Pro. fiC l45 Elizateth with wails fir Lisbon. OVC I LY 1 N GTON, AU G. 17. Sailed the Ba c " sloop of war for the Cape of Good Ho, e. f 0 FAWCETT has returned from his exped l ", i 'd Ireland, which was a very suece ,, sful one , fi l o gone to Margate, where he means to lie till the cotmencement of the Covent Gard en " L son. It has been said that the recent AEI of Parlio pe for re-building Drury-Lane Theatre is• t ° bd come `' a dead-teiter Miv,"7l . Ld 10 0 e 1 too much truth in the supposition, as Nve u() thitc hear that any effeEtive measures are in train fo p l . re , purpose. The old Patent, howe, cr, is still in r°3oe, and it is probable, therefore, that the Drury Company of Performers will be kept toget her c ioo l ing the ensuing season under that audio' ity, by a new License from the Lord Charnher The , Lyceum, of course, will be the sc el l .e act We are glad to find that the Oppositijn .txr vent their minds very freely on the c ondo 6 it chara6ter of the French Usurper, and, after al l tl ad;t:iraticta ot him and his exploits, now apli elif 'it 01i:A him capable of every species of atrucitY' f or m is by no means wonderful that they should this conception of the Ty'rant, hut it is r ather , ", / t• prising that they should be o long before th e P o tertained snob an opinioi, oi his disposition . ti nib is, that there can be b .t one opinion 1)1 s 's man, it he may be called so, after having A be „ vi d total disregard of all human obligati o ns, sod,", N t lo fur ever be recorded as a wonder in history,, l'!; world should have suffered him quietly to ent e r elevation obtained by every vile and intalut)L o —3 action. tirl) e rIA Our Merchants are cautions-d n o t t o be (1 00. in availing thern%elves of BtJuNAPAETE's reD S'i u bi , of his mercantile restridious, as " tiny be ` l°- ed whether the Ruler of France vvo:,lu to` C tlio mute scruple in leading them into a itrare- 11° olP DEY ot A Luisi t s." This i s not 111,! fire? attack w the poor DEY AIGIERS, who ,cems to b 3" 1,0 curled the reseattn.tnt of some of the o, , Poi iii° : 9 having declared war against France. We bete it hos.yt,yer, that nobody but the.uselVeS would d ° o{ . whether the Rule! ot France would have all y b o dy scruple than tire aforesaid DEY, in leading anY a ryl , into a seat', to gratify his own pride,' interes t ' be atilbi , ion. Indeed, as it is very probable Oa' possesses much more subtlety than the PX Y, 2 t i r most probable that he is n(,t likely to be so bcrtNes lous, our Merchants would haVe reason t°,! ; % !o' much deeper snares, if it wer e not evidently 0 10 ,licy and interest to give some commercial' rel'‘eie his unfortunate subje&s at home and in 11 .15 deP o o , d . encies, as well as to those of hi s d eg raded s'"' jai allies. srou n , "A tea th ( Itiati h enl 4k no . r), falc e, tiseatt ' eOpv `;\\* 4 '